Glory Hole Mine

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039467
MRDS ID M050125
Record type Site
Current site name Glory Hole Mine
Alternate or previous names Globe

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.49124, 32.75982 (WGS84)
Elevation 1292
Relative position 1 MI NW OF COPPER CREEK, 1500 FT W OF COPPER PRINCE, IN GALIURO MT S

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oak Grove Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008S 018E 03,10 S OF CENTER (03) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SPARSE SUPERGENE CU STAINING. LARGELY DEVOID OF CU MINERALS. WEED (1913) REPORTED SULFIDE ORE OF GOOD GRADE ON 200 LEVEL

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Andesite Altered To Quartz & Sericite

Analytical data

Result IN GENERAL ASSAYS LESS THAN 3% CU WHERE FOUND BELOW 200 LEVEL IN O XIDIZED & LEACHED ZONE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Glory Hole Volcanics;Copper Creek Granodiorite
    Rock description Glory Hole Volcanics;Copper Creek Granodiorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cretaceous
    Chronological age 66

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.49124, 32.75982

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nnw Trending Block Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults Striking E-W, N60e, & N10w; Breccia Pipe - Contact Shows No Evidence Of Movement

Ore body information

  • General form PIPE-LIKE
    Length 33.53M
    Width 21.34M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 182.88M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Pipes At Joint Intersections

Comments on the geologic information

  • FRACTURED GLORY HOLE VOLCANICS ARE IN SHARP, NEARLY VERTICAL, CURV ED CONTACT WITH FE & CU STAINED BRECCIA. BRECCIA IS UNSORTED WITH PLAT Y FRAGMENTS 1-6 IN. AND BLOCKS 1-10 FT. NO FINE-GRAINED MATRIX; VOIDS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bunker Hill District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 198.12M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHAFT, SEVERAL LEVELS (ONLY ONE NOW ACCESSIBLE), NO STOPES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, 1964, USGS PP 461

  • Deposit

    WEED, 1913, MIN & ENG WORLD, V. 38, P. 375-378

  • Deposit

    KUHN, 1941, ECON GEOL, V. 36, NO. 5, P. 512-538

  • Deposit

    GUTHRIE & MOORE, 1978, AZ GEOL SOC DIGEST V. 11, P. 25-31

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINE EXPLORES 3 CLOSELY SPACED BRECCIA PIPES. DIMENSIONS ABOVE AR E FOR MAIN PIPE. SECOND PIPE IS 100 FT ACROSS; THIRD IS SMALL. LAYERIN G OF FRAGMENTS DIPS N AT 25-35 DEG.
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050125 WITH RE CORD M000721 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

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